In pursuit of food security

IN THE WAKE of the most severe drought in 60 years, newspapers proclaimed in June 2011 that East Africa was on the verge of the world’s worst food security crisis. In Kenya, the government declared the food crisis a national disaster, and for the first time in 30 years, the United Nations declared famine in Somalia. Aid organisations called not only for emergency response, but also for an overhaul in how governments responded to food security on the continent.

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